The Isle of Wight Council’s enforcement action against the owners of a holiday home that was being used as a permanent home, located on the outskirts of Chale Green and Niton, has been upheld by The Planning Inspectorate.
Appletree Barn off Appleford Lane was granted planning permission to become a holiday home back in 2016, having previously been used as a stable block. However, the owners began living permanently in the property in 2018, in breach of planning conditions that require the use to be limited to holiday occupancy only.
The council had served an Enforcement Notice that required Mr and Mrs David Heath to stop living there. In response, the couple chose to appeal the notice, arguing the holiday accommodation was not viable and that it should be used as a dwelling.
Mr and Mrs Heath told the Council that they had no other place to live until they sold the dwelling. They previously owned Little Dolcopice Farm.
However, The Planning Inspectorate’s Nick Fagan agreed with the Council’s concerns about the unjustified loss of the holiday unit, which is located within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Following a site visit on 9th March, the inspector found the location was not suitable for a permanent home, due to lack of access to services and facilities and the loss of a high-quality holiday home.
As a result, the owners will be required to leave by November this year.
Councillor Paul Fuller, Cabinet member for planning, has this week said:
“Planning conditions and their compliance within our Island is so important.
Article continues below this advertisement “To protect the Island’s demand for high-quality holiday accommodation, and the need for housing to be located in sustainable locations is paramount for our Island’s economy.”
That’ll teach them for wanting somewhere affordable to live!
Had they been paying Council Tax?
I had to pay it back dated when i lived in a Caravan even though it was deemed to be a Holiday Home and i was told i could live there permanently when i bought it?
Surely the Council Tax department had to Band the properly?????
They should of kept it as a stable block and made it twice the size. These types of things are accepted by planners apparently.
Why yes definitely should have made it a little bit bigger.,then they may have got away with it !!!
Ooh no our council cannot afford to lose money due in council tax !!!! .
1 rule for one nag another for Joe public !!!!!
Didn’t councillor mosdell do that?
Clearly planned on breaking the law when they bought the place, probably coffin dodgers hoping Gods waiting room would call them before IOW council. Merry Christmas!
Actually not coffins dodgers but locals who have owned the land and stables for 34 years, and are still both working in the local area. I was born 300m up the road. We are victims of townie incomers who do not want locals in the area .We have tried to sort this out through the councils planning process but have found that they the council do not follow their own planning & enforcement policies & procedures . It appears that the council think that only tourists should be allowed to enjoy our countryside. It’s about time they supported local rural working people .
The council state it’s unsustainable for one family to live here for 52 weeks a year, but perfectly sustainable for 52 families to live here for a week.
Corrupt comes to mind
Planning permission to build a holiday home is not planning permission to build a permanent residence. There are different rules for good reasons. These people are just trying to make money by circumventing the system. They sold their own home to make a pile of money and then moved into the holiday home, before trying to get its status changed into a permanent residence. Just trying to work the system to make money. I have no sympathy for these cheeky chancers. If you let this sort of thing go, everyone caravan and holiday home on the island will be full of benefits scroungers from the mainland all year round. Do you really want that?
Rule 1: Planning permission is
decided by “what is best for the land”.
Step 1: ask the planning department what type of permission they would consider best for the property you would like planning permission for.
Action 1:
Look to see what type of restrictions have been applied to other people who were granted that exact type of planning permission.
Decision 1: is that type of planning permissions something you can live with and other conditions rules that you can keep to?
If you decide yes to decision 1: keep to it!
No point in crying about it and coming up with conspiracy theories when it is that simple
It is nothing to do with ‘Townies’.
You broke planning laws.
The appeal decision is quite clear on this.
‘Probably’ & ‘might have’ but no hard facts. Just a lively imagination & a touch of prejudice to make up a story. I’ll stick to the official version
“To protect the Island’s demand for high-quality holiday accommodation“
Errm.
I fear Councillor Fuller needs to have a consultation with the Cabinet Member for Tourism etc.
They SERIOUSLY need to take a look a SOME of the hotel offerings that still exist on the Island!
Should have filled a brown envelope and found a funny handshaker.
So the council ‘can’ do enforcement when it suits them and the person involved isn’t one of their own……
So corrupt.
Exactly what I thought. Absolute joke. And one only has to look at Sandown to see how dreadfully concerned they are to “protect holiday accommodation”.
Never known such a thoroughly disgusting council.
Yea,they take on the little people,the big boys get away with it for years.
If a movie was made about the council and you compared it with a mafia movie it would be difficult to tell them apart
Or even a carry on film
So they are now homeless and the council will have to put them in temporary accommodation which will be a caravan or hotel, if they have pets they will have to get rid of them, should’ve just left them alone not doing any harm
Hardly likely. Sound like they were just trying to make more money by selling their actual and then moving into holiday home. Won’t be short of a bob or two.
As they wre illegal in the first lace then they are intentionalloy homeless and no responsibility of the council to bail them out
The council doesn’t bail people out anymore, they have nowhere to put them other than temporary accommodation which is guess what a caravan, hotel or some other holiday accommodation, so the council pay a huge rent to the likes of awaze. It might also surprise you to know that for every property up for rent there are 50 applications as supply is so limited, you are obviously clueless what some families are going through, people don’t intentionally make themselves homeless
This! Send them to Rwanda!
The crooked council have just bailed them out on to the street. But yes it’s their fault for not doing the right thing like all of us have to do. Well un less you are called Mosdell
I was renting a room in a multiple occupancy and the council decided it should be returned to a family home, so I had to get out, so I went to the council and said as they’ve made me homeless they’ll have to rehouse me, they said that I had made myself homeless by being there and wouldn’t help me
They are not homeless, if you read the report they can stay there until November.
So kick them out just before Christmas when it’s cold & wet. Splendid!
So when they can’t stay there they can decorate and do maintenance 24/7 wich is all above board
The IWC successfully makes 2 people homelessness. Great result. Now they can give them a council house.
They won’t give anyone a council house or any accommodation they don’t care
Tories already fixed that. No more council houses. God bless
Not so much a qwerty king lol homeless*
Council house . They teach kids about those in history classes now.
Quote Paul Fuller – “To protect the Island’s demand for high-quality holiday accommodation, and the need for housing to be located in sustainable locations is paramount for our Island’s economy.”
So how does that narrative work in regards to the loss of a long established Holiday Let on Lee Farm in Wellow? Just to recap – get rid of tourist asset; allow market value housing to be built in an unsustainable location; enable affordable housing quota to be waived; then enter into a clandestine undertaking to construct an isolated length of cycle track which now has no funding! You couldn’t make it up.
Watch out ,Gurnard Pines and Sandown Bay Holiday Apartments next on the council’s list as they are all holiday lettings.
Should’ve become a councillor for a term, you would have got away with it.
take the stable block at Newchurch it worked for her!
What NONE of you have considered is the reason why we have a housing crisis is because of millions of extra bodies arriving into the UK recently.
NONE come with land or a home, and almost all have no money to buy or even rent one.
So they take mostly mainland homes, thus far, and then mainland people MOVE here to escape the areas that ‘they’ no longer feel comfortable living in.
Thus such indirectly effects all of us here
YET people are too afraid or too brainwashed to see that SINCE mass arrivals, the housing crisis has never been so dire for British people. IT isn’t just ‘coincidence’ . THINK
Your just spouting what we already know, we are just powerless to stop it as we are so divided; im just waiting for the rest of you to die so maybe actual change can happen I mean look at the shelter at the pond in ryde rather than effect change they just bolt it up just like the skate park…I tell you all now, do not pay your next council tax bill why when they are not rendering the service satisfactory
Yawn. Sorry. I was just dropping off then. Are you still spouting the same xenophobic BS? This government are stopping the boats and reducing immigration aren’t they?
There are more empty unused buildings than there are people who don’t have somewhere to live. The issue is people hoarding houses as investments, 2nd & 3rd homes & running air bnbs that are empty half the time. You could stop all immigrants & refugees from entering the country (Be a bit stupid as the NHS & various other sectors are propped up by foreign nationals but hey ho) & there would still be a housing crisis just as long as property is seen as an asset rather than a home. Focus your energy on the prices of homes rather than folk looking for a better life in one.
People need to wake up
Except the island population is decreasing, which totally invalidates your spurious claim.
“inspector found the location was not suitable for a permanent home, due to lack of access to services and facilities and the loss of a high-quality holiday home” How can it be a High quality holiday home ( quote home) if no services? Have they candles and whole in ground for toilet?. If we own our land/ property we should be allowed to live on as we like,this couple caused no harm to anyone and how does living in for 10mths any different to 12mths. Council did same to caravan park in Sandown and refused to allow 12mths- outcome it closed,hundreds homeless and council had to fund and find temp acc. Think officers were directed by Councilor to say no. Council trying to stop holiday homes- then say want more!.
Ha ha – as though Isle of Wight Council are concerned about tourism!!! Overgrown Rights of Way, rundown towns, poorly maintained steps down to some beaches, scruffy potholed roads, privately run ferries charging massive prices, weeds everywhere you look, residents paying ever more for ever less, and to top it all, their own County Hall building is an absolute eyesore with filthy windows. Couldn’t run a bath, in my opinion.
And I don’t mean the hard working frontline staff – I mean the decision makers.
you forgot ,hardly any public toilets.as I found out on a recent trip to freshwater.bay.just an absolutely disgusting portal loo,located outside the toilet block.don’t think it’d ever been cleaned
I’m sorry but doesn’t a victory need someone to come out on top. Not what I see here, a family who will be force out of there home at the cusps on the of winter so they can sell an over price caravan to people who have to pay for the most expensive water crossing in the world. Now how is this helping the public. It just trying to line the council pockets.
Wow, bet the Island Council are banging back the Moet on this “victory” Yes, the usage was incorrect, but in the overall scheme of things was it worth the time, cost and manpower. Nah, there are many other things this council could be putting themselves into fixing. But, I guess that would mean a bit more graft. So cheers team, pop the corks on another pointless victory.
Our council and its idiot workforce are a joke. Wasting our council tax on chasing people when they let the island slip into third world status. WAKE UP. The island is becoming a toilet under Pereras regime. Sack the lot.
No doubt all this was instigated by a P.O.S neighbour with an axe to grind. Leave them alone, what harm are they doing? Living like this is perfectly sustainable and a typical response from our pathetic council. They should crowdfund a further appeal.
Double standards yet again, the council are allowing a chap to live in a shed with no running water or toilet facilities on the Esplanade in Ryde. He has junk spilling out on to the pavement it looks a right eyesore & must breach every health & safety standard in the book, yet turn people out of a perfect home. Unbelievable.
Perhaps the couple should have been clever and rented the converted barn to themselves as a holiday let through a company they set up?
I have no idea if that would work, but the whole situation is ridiculous anyway. Is this really how we want our Public Servants to spend their time? Chasing up and evicting people because they’re living in what the Council consider to be the wrong home?
Council claiming victory. They make me sick. Try picking on someone your own size. Ocean Hotel comes to mind.
They claim to want to look after tourism on the island, tosh Look at Sandown sea front, unbelievable
These people have bought it, paid for it and are living in it, not bothering anyone and not expecting help or hand-outs.I thought we needed homes for locals. This is not a victory, it’s bureaucracy gone mad.
The council allowed councillor Mosdell to get away with it though didn’t they. Typical of a corrupt council
These people got what they deserve .
Years of lies and deception catches up with you in the end.
Having had several properties they’ve sold ,and their other ways of funding , they have more than enough money.
The new build that was built alot larger than it should of been with no intentions of it being a holiday home it was all lies from the start, just so they could get planning..
Are very good at manipulation to get what they want ,have years of experience and always getting away with it ..
They will plead poverty yet are driving round in top end cars with private plates..
Also going under different sir names depending on what deception their up to ..
Please don’t feel sorry for them and never believe what they say .
I am astoiunded that so many people are so unkind when they do not have access to a complete story. Technology now allows people to form opinions and be judge and jury without any understanding of the full evidence. I read the last comment by ‘Lilly’ and hope that she never has to sit on a jury. Clearly both sides of a story have to be heard IN FULL before comments can be made that imply they understand the complete story. As I do understand the complete story, I can categorically state that so many are wrong or motivated be unkindness or bigotry. What a sad society we live in, when people are motivated to write such negative comments about a couple who show kindness and concern to others.
Signed the couple mentioned in the article …
I understand these people very well,having had dealings with them in the passed I am well aware of what they are capable of and they are not nice people .
As for me sitting on a jury regarding them I would’ve been very happy to ..
Unless you have had dealings with them you have no idea …
Only out for themselves and not a care about who they hurt .
They are professional fraudsters, have been for years ,they get away with it because their good .
I have no sympathy for them .
Not nice people? I suggest you look in the mirror Madam.
@Mrs Astounded – Wow. You have the nerve to put someone else’s name in quotes but unless you were truly surprised in life, I call you out. I feel it important to clarify some facts:
The Heath’s (Information available publicly) protested against the Councils own decision. They lost. They have tossed the dice and, frankly, they lost because they broke the rules.
They are not without funds. They are not without property although Mrs Heath does not state that on the housing crisis Facebook page. Instead she claims under her name Teresa Allen, that all are against her.
They applied permission for a holiday home. They then lied about living there. Truly the result is just. They just don’t like it.
What about all the so called holiday caravan parks such as Lower Hyde which have quite a few caravans permanantly lived in all year by their owners, a blind eye seems to be tuned on these.
Well tell the council if that is the case.
Did you have a hand in this one lol